Climate Change, Featured, Politics - Thursday, September 18, 2008 19:02 - 3 Comments

Europeans Like Targets on Climate Change

Europeans are highly concerned about climate change and clearly willing to take action against it. A majority of Europeans believes that the European Union’s targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and increasing the share of renewable energy by 2020 are about right or even too modest. However, a significant proportion of people feel poorly informed about climate change and ways to help fight it.  These are the main conclusions of a special Eurobarometer survey of public attitudes about climate change commissioned by the European Parliament and the European Commission which was published today. Continue…